Stone
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Jun 18, 2018

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…that the brow ridge’s decline allowed some of the more subtle communications that we rely on today. Perhaps our eyebrows painted an entire new dimension of communication onto what O’Higgins calls our vertical canvas — our foreheads.

Humans May Have a Surprising Evolutionary Advantage: Expressive Eyebrows
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Loved the phrase, “vertical canvas.” Thank you.

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